Cukurova University

Çukurova University (Çukurova Üniversitesi) is a public research university in Adana, Turkey, founded in 1973 under Law No. 1786 by merging the Faculty of Agriculture that Ankara University had opened in the city in 1969 with the Faculty of Medicine that Atatürk University had opened there in 1972, and it takes its name from Çukurova, the Turkish name of the fertile Cilician plain on which Adana stands.丘库罗瓦大学（Çukurova Üniversitesi）是土耳其阿达纳的一所公立研究型大学，1973 年依据第 1786 号法律设立，由安卡拉大学 1969 年在本地创办的农学院与阿塔图尔克大学 1972 年创办的医学院合并而成，校名取自阿达纳所在的肥沃奇里乞亚平原的土耳其语名称「丘库罗瓦」。

Its single Balcalı campus on the eastern shore of the Seyhan Dam Lake covers about 20 square kilometres some 10 kilometres from the city centre, and according to the university's official 2024 report it teaches roughly 49,680 students with 2,098 academic staff.其唯一的巴勒贾勒校区位于塞汉水坝湖东岸，占地约 20 平方公里，距市中心约 10 公里；据校方 2024 年报告，全校有学术人员 2,098 人、学生约 49,680 人。

Placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, the university also appears in the 1601-1800 band of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 and at 1,351 in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校位于 1401+ 区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位于 1601-1800 区间，在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中列第 1,351 位。

History

• In 1969 Ankara University opened its Faculty of Agriculture in Adana, then the largest city of the fertile Çukurova plain, and in 1972 Atatürk University added a Faculty of Medicine in the same city.1969 年，安卡拉大学在肥沃的奇里乞亚平原最大城市阿达纳开设农学院，1972 年阿塔图尔克大学又在同城设立医学院。

• The two faculties were combined into Çukurova University by Law No. 1786 of 30 November 1973, and the horticulturist Prof. Dr. Mithat Özsan, then dean of the Adana agriculture faculty, was elected the first rector.1973 年 11 月 30 日第 1786 号法律将两院合并为丘库罗瓦大学，时任阿达纳农学院院长的园艺学家米塔特·厄兹桑教授当选首任校长。

• Özsan, a 1948 graduate of the Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture who had taken his doctorate in 1958 and become professor at the Adana faculty in 1972, served as rector for sixteen years across four terms before retiring in 1992.厄兹桑 1948 年毕业于安卡拉大学农学院，1958 年获博士学位，1972 年晋升阿达纳农学院教授，此后四度出任校长，共执掌学校 16 年，1992 年退休。

• In 1974 the Faculties of Basic Sciences, Administrative Sciences and Engineering were opened, raising the number of faculties from two to five.1974 年，基础科学学院、行政科学学院与工程学院相继开办，学院数由两所增至五所。

• The 1982 higher education reform, which reorganised vocational and teacher training across the country, brought the Adana Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences and the two-year foreign language colleges of Adana, İçel and Hatay into the university.1982 年高等教育改革在全国范围重组了职业与师范教育，并将阿达纳经济与商业科学院以及阿达纳、伊切尔、哈塔伊三地的两年制外语专科学校并入丘库罗瓦大学。

• In the same restructuring the Faculty of Basic Sciences became the Faculty of Science and Letters, the administrative faculty was recast as the Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, and engineering was renamed the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.同一次调整中，基础科学学院改为理学与文学院，行政学院改为经济与行政科学学院，工程学院改为工程与建筑学院。

• The Faculty of Education was created out of those merged foreign language colleges and remains the university's main teacher-training body.教育学院由上述外语专科学校合并而成，至今仍是该校最主要的师资培养机构。

• By 1992 the university had become a regional hub, and it helped found three new universities by transferring two colleges to Mersin University, three colleges to Hatay Mustafa Kemal University and its research and application centre in Kahramanmaraş to Sütçü İmam University.到 1992 年，该校已成为区域高教中心，并通过转让两所学院给梅尔辛大学、三所学院给哈塔伊穆斯塔法·凯末尔大学以及卡赫拉曼马拉什的研究与应用中心给许特曲伊玛目大学，促成了三所新大学的建立。

• From 1993 the university entered a new growth phase, adding the faculties of Fisheries, Theology, Dentistry, Fine Arts and Communication and bringing the faculty count to ten.1993 年起学校进入新的扩张期，先后增设水产学院、神学院、牙科学院、美术学院与传播学院，学院数增至十所。

• The Karataş College of Tourism and Hotel Management was founded in 1994, the Karaisalı Vocational College in 1995 and the Kadirli Vocational College, which taught computer programming and industrial electronics, in 1997.卡拉塔什旅游与酒店管理学院于 1994 年设立，卡拉勒萨勒职业学院于 1995 年设立，开设计算机编程与工业电子课程的卡德尔利职业学院于 1997 年设立。

• In 1996 the Vocational College of Health Services was reorganised as the College of Health Sciences, and the Department of Physical Education became the College of Physical Education and Sports.1996 年，卫生服务职业学院改组为健康科学学院，体育系改为体育与运动学院。

• The Adana School of Health, opened in the 1996-1997 academic year, moved into a new building on the Balcalı campus in March 2008.阿达纳卫生学校于 1996-1997 学年开办，2008 年 3 月迁入巴勒贾勒校区新楼。

• In 2007 the university's units in Osmaniye and Kadirli were transferred to the newly established Osmaniye Korkut Ata University.2007 年，该校在奥斯曼尼耶与卡德尔利的各单位划归新设立的奥斯曼尼耶科尔库特阿塔大学。

• By a Council of Ministers decision published in the Official Gazette of 27 August 2015, the Adana School of Health was closed and replaced by the Faculty of Health Sciences.根据 2015 年 8 月 27 日官方公报公布的内阁决定，阿达纳卫生学校停办，改设健康科学学院。

• In 2012 the European Commission awarded the university the Diploma Supplement Label for keeping its qualifications legible across Europe.2012 年，欧盟委员会因该校保持学位在欧洲范围内可比易读而授予其文凭补充标签。

• On 18 July 2025 the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council granted the university full institutional accreditation for five years.2025 年 7 月 18 日，土耳其高等教育质量委员会授予该校五年期完整机构认证。

• Among the institutions added after 1993 were the Ceyhan Faculty of Engineering and the Ceyhan Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, which extended the university's reach to the Ceyhan district east of Adana.1993 年后增设的机构包括杰伊汉工程学院与杰伊汉兽医学院，把学校的办学范围扩展到阿达纳以东的杰伊汉县。

• The Kozan Faculty of Business Administration and the Yumurtalık Vocational College carry the university's presence into the northern districts of Adana Province.科赞工商管理学院与尤穆尔塔勒克职业学院则把该校的存在延伸到阿达纳省北部的多个县。

• In 1977 the astrophysicist Hakkı Boran Ögelman left the Middle East Technical University at the rector's invitation to found the new Faculty of Arts and Sciences, whose first classes met in barracks.1977 年，天体物理学家哈克·博兰·厄格尔曼应校长邀请离开中东技术大学，创办新的理学与文学院，首批课程在简易营房中开讲。

• Under Ögelman's solar energy programme the campus acquired Turkey's first energy-efficient solar house and a solar pond in 1981, research chosen to suit a region with abundant sunshine.1981 年，在厄格尔曼的太阳能研究计划下，校园建成了土耳其首座节能太阳能住宅和一座太阳池，此类研究正是为适配当地充足的阳光而选定的。

• The university today comprises nineteen faculties, four institutes, eleven vocational schools, a college of foreign languages and a state conservatory, led by Rector Prof. Dr. Hamit Emrah Beriş.今天的学校设有 19 所学院、4 个研究所、11 所职业学院、一所外国语学院和一所国立音乐学院，由哈米特·埃姆拉·贝里什教授担任校长。

Academics

• The university is organised into nineteen faculties, among them Medicine, Dentistry, Science and Letters, Education, Fine Arts, Law, Theology, Economic and Administrative Sciences, Agriculture, Fisheries, Communication, Engineering, Architecture, Pharmacy, Health Sciences and Sport Sciences.全校设有 19 所学院，包括医学院、牙科学院、理学与文学院、教育学院、美术学院、法学院、神学院、经济与行政科学学院、农学院、水产学院、传播学院、工程学院、建筑学院、药学院、健康科学学院与运动科学学院等。

• Graduate education runs through four institutes, the Institute of Social Sciences, the Institute of Natural Sciences, the Institute of Health Sciences and the Institute of Addiction and Forensic Sciences.研究生教育由社会科学研究所、自然科学研究所、健康科学研究所与成瘾及法医学研究所四个机构承担。

• Eleven vocational schools, including those in Ceyhan, Kozan, Karaisalı, Pozantı, İmamoğlu, Aladağ, Tufanbeyli and Yumurtalık, deliver associate degrees across Adana Province.11 所职业学院遍布阿达纳省各地，包括杰伊汉、科赞、卡拉勒萨勒、波赞特、伊马姆勒、阿拉达、图凡贝伊利与尤穆尔塔勒克等校，提供副学士学位教育。

• In the 2023-2024 academic year the university ran 67 associate degree, 93 undergraduate, 143 master's and 81 doctoral programmes.2023-2024 学年，全校开设 67 个副学士、93 个本科、143 个硕士与 81 个博士项目。

• Turkish is the main language of instruction, but the electrical-electronic and mechanical engineering departments of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture run English-medium programmes.教学语言以土耳其语为主，而工程与建筑学院的电气电子工程系与机械工程系开设英语授课项目。

• All programmes of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences include compulsory English preparatory classes, while the mathematics, chemistry and physics departments and several engineering departments offer optional ones.经济与行政科学学院所有项目均设必修英语预科，数学、化学、物理等系及若干工程系则开设选修英语预科。

• The Faculty of Education provides foreign-language preparatory classes in English, French and German for its language-teaching departments.教育学院的英语、法语、德语语言教学各系开设相应的外语预科班。

• Evening programmes are offered in teacher training, economics, business, the basic sciences, several engineering departments and fisheries, as well as at the Ceyhan and Osmaniye vocational colleges.师范、经济、工商、基础科学、若干工程系及水产学院开设有夜间课程，杰伊汉与奥斯曼尼耶职业学院亦设夜间班。

• The academic staff numbered 2,098 in the 2024 report, comprising 577 professors, 245 associate professors, 255 assistant professors, 399 lecturers and 622 research assistants, alongside 26 academicians from abroad.2024 年报告显示学术人员共 2,098 人，其中教授 577 人、副教授 245 人、助理教授 255 人、讲师 399 人、研究助理 622 人，另有外籍学者 26 人。

• The same report put total enrolment at about 49,680 students, and roughly 8,000 students graduated in the 2023-2024 academic year.同一报告显示全校学生约 49,680 人，2023-2024 学年毕业生约 8,000 人。

• The teaching hospital attached to the medical faculty has a capacity of 1,309 beds and reported 413,572 outpatient visits and 25,126 operations in 2024.附属医学院的教学医院编制床位 1,309 张，2024 年门诊量 413,572 人次、手术 25,126 台。

• The university operates 38 research and application centres and 301 laboratories, among them the Biotechnology Research and Application Centre and the Foreign Languages Research and Application Centre, known by its Turkish acronym YADIM.学校设有 38 个研究与应用中心和 301 个实验室，其中包括生物技术研究与应用中心与外语研究与应用中心（土耳其语缩写 YADIM）。

• A central library serves students and staff with national and international collections, and computer rooms across the campus support computer-assisted education and scientific research.中央图书馆藏有国内外出版物，为师生提供服务，全校计算机房则支持计算机辅助教学与科学研究。

• Çukurova is one of twenty pilot universities in the Turkish internationalisation project and maintains Erasmus exchange agreements with more than one hundred partner universities across Europe.丘库罗瓦是土耳其国际化项目的 20 所试点大学之一，与欧洲一百多所合作院校签有伊拉斯谟交流协议。

• Admission to associate and undergraduate programmes follows the nationwide Higher Education Institutions Examination, while the State Conservatory, the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Sport Sciences admit students through special talent examinations.副学士与本科招生依据全国高等教育入学考试（YKS）成绩录取，而国立音乐学院、美术学院与运动科学学院则通过专项才能考试招生。

• The Faculty of Medicine, descended from the school that Atatürk University opened in 1972, anchors a hospital complex that also serves the wider Çukurova region and hosts the university's dentistry and health sciences programmes.医学院溯源于阿塔图尔克大学 1972 年开办的医学院校，其医院综合体同时服务整个奇里乞亚地区，并承载学校的牙科与健康科学专业。

Campus

• The Balcalı campus, the university's single main campus, lies on the eastern side of the Seyhan Dam Lake and takes its name from the village that occupied the site before construction.巴勒贾勒校区是学校唯一的主校区，位于塞汉水坝湖东岸，其名称来自建校前坐落于此的村庄。

• The campus covers about 20 square kilometres, or 20,000 decares, with the official figure given as 20,170,600 square metres, and sits about 10 kilometres from the centre of Adana.校区占地约 20 平方公里即 2 万德卡尔，官方数据为 20,170,600 平方米，距阿达纳市中心约 10 公里。

• Laid out as a green campus, it combines administrative and teaching buildings and laboratories with a hospital complex, a central library, a central cafeteria, sports grounds, faculty residences, a medico-social centre and other social facilities.校区按绿色校园理念布局，行政与教学楼、实验室与医院综合体、中央图书馆、中央餐厅、运动场、教师住宅、医疗社会中心等社交设施融为一体。

• Dormitories on the campus house up to 3,500 students, and recreational facilities include an indoor sports centre, a swimming pool and a boathouse.校内宿舍可容纳 3,500 名学生，室内体育中心、游泳池与船库等休闲设施齐备。

• The university counts 17 sports facilities and 30 sports teams, and more than 120 student associations operate across its units.全校有 17 处体育设施和 30 支运动队，120 多个学生社团在各下属单位活动。

• Beyond Balcalı, academic units are scattered across Adana Province, including the Ceyhan engineering and veterinary faculties, the Kozan faculty of business and vocational schools in Yumurtalık, Karaisalı, Pozantı, İmamoğlu, Aladağ and Tufanbeyli.除巴勒贾勒外，学术单位遍布阿达纳省，包括杰伊汉工程学院与兽医学院、科赞工商学院以及尤穆尔塔勒克、卡拉勒萨勒、波赞特、伊马姆勒、阿拉达、图凡贝伊利等地的职业学院。

• Public transport vehicles commute between the city centre and the campus, supplemented by private bus services that carry most of the student body each day.公共汽车在市中心与校区之间往返，私营巴士服务则每天接送大部分学生。

• The campus stands on the Çukurova plain, the fertile lowland that gives both the region and the university its name and that anchors the teaching and research of the Faculty of Agriculture.校区坐落在奇里乞亚平原这片肥沃低地上，地区与大学均由此得名，农学院的教研也以此为基础。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Çukurova University is placed in the 1401+ band, the tied segment at the foot of the table rather than a single numbered position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，丘库罗瓦大学位于 1401+ 区间，这是榜单末端的并列段而非单独名次。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 1601-1800 band.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入 1601-1800 区间。

• The 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking lists it 1,351, while it is not included in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单列其第 1,351 位，而 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜未收录该校。

• In the QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia ranking, which covers Turkey together with the former socialist states of the region, the university stood 189th in 2022, its best showing in a regional table.在覆盖土耳其与该地区前社会主义国家的 QS 新兴欧洲与中亚排名中，该校 2022 年位列第 189 名，这是其在区域榜单上的最好成绩。

• The Turkish Higher Education Quality Council granted full five-year institutional accreditation in 2025, covering leadership, teaching, research and service to society.土耳其高等教育质量委员会于 2025 年授予其五年期完整机构认证，覆盖领导治理、教学、科研与社会服务。

• The European Commission's Diploma Supplement Label, awarded in 2012, recognises the university's work in keeping its qualifications comparable across Europe.欧盟委员会 2012 年授予的文凭补充标签，是对该校保持学位在欧洲范围内可比性的认可。

• Research strength shows in the citation records of its staff, among them Prof. Dr. Fatih Özoğul of the Faculty of Fisheries, named a 2023 Highly Cited Researcher in agricultural sciences by Clarivate and listed among the world's top one per cent of scientists in food science in the Stanford University rankings.科研实力体现在教师的引用记录上，水产学院的法蒂赫·厄佐聚尔教授即为例证：他被科睿唯安列为 2023 年农业科学高被引学者，并入选斯坦福大学榜单食品科学领域全球前 1% 的科学家。

• Prof. Dr. Hakan Özkan of the Faculty of Agriculture, winner of a 2004 TÜBİTAK young scientist award and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, has published more than 100 papers that have drawn over 5,000 citations.农学院的哈坎·厄兹坎教授是 2004 年土耳其科技研究委员会青年科学家奖得主、洪堡学者，已发表 100 余篇论文，被引逾 5,000 次。

• In November 2025 the university's Yumurtalık Vocational School hosted the International Adana Congress on Scientific Research and Innovation together with the International Yumurtalık Agriculture and Tourism Congress, presenting 270 papers from 33 countries.2025 年 11 月，该校尤穆尔塔勒克职业学院主办了国际阿达纳科学研究与创新大会暨国际尤穆尔塔勒克农业与旅游大会，宣读来自 33 个国家的 270 篇论文。

Student life

• Çukurova University does not use a formal Latin motto of the kind common at older European and American universities, and no official school motto is recorded in its institutional publications.丘库罗瓦大学没有欧美古老大学常见的拉丁文校训，其机构出版物中亦无正式校训的记载。

• The Çukurova University Equestrian Sports Club, known by its Turkish acronym ÇUASK and founded in 2000, gives students and staff riding lessons with four thoroughbred stallions kept for schooling.丘库罗瓦大学马术体育俱乐部（土耳其语缩写 ÇUASK）创办于 2000 年，以四匹用于教学的纯血种公马向师生提供骑术课程。

• The club is run by student volunteers who give the lessons, look after the horses and stables, and let experienced members explore the campus trails on horseback.俱乐部由学生志愿者运营，他们授课、照料马匹与马厩，并带成熟会员在校园小径上骑马游览。

• More than 120 student associations and 29 student clubs operate across the university, covering sport, the arts and academic interests.全校有 120 多个学生社团与 29 个学生俱乐部，涵盖体育、艺术与学术兴趣。

• The campus offers an indoor sports centre, a swimming pool, a boathouse and multiple sports grounds, with 17 sports facilities and 30 teams in official counts.校园设有室内体育中心、游泳池、船库与多处运动场，官方统计为 17 处体育设施与 30 支运动队。

• Students can gain practical experience abroad through organisations such as AIESEC, while Erasmus exchanges send others to partner universities across Europe.学生可通过 AIESEC 等组织获得海外实践经历，伊拉斯谟交流则把另一些学生送往欧洲各地的合作院校。

• A central cafeteria serves meals to staff and students, and dormitory accommodation for up to 3,500 students anchors residential life on the Balcalı campus.中央餐厅为师生供餐，可容纳 3,500 名学生的宿舍则构成巴勒贾勒校区寄宿生活的中心。

• Student life is bound up with Adana, one of Turkey's largest cities, whose best-known spring event, the Orange Blossom Carnival, takes its name from the citrus groves of the surrounding plain.校园生活与阿达纳这座土耳其最大城市之一紧密相连，该市最著名的春季活动橙花狂欢节即得名于周边平原的柑橘园。

Notable people

• Prof. Dr. Mithat Özsan, a horticulturist trained at Ankara University, was the founding rector from 1973 and returned for three further terms, serving sixteen years in all before retiring in 1992.园艺学家米塔特·厄兹桑教授毕业于安卡拉大学，1973 年出任创校校长，后又三度连任，共执掌学校 16 年，1992 年退休。

• Prof. Dr. Hakkı Boran Ögelman, a gamma-ray astronomer who had worked on NASA's SAS-II satellite experiment, left the Middle East Technical University in 1977 to found the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and served as its first dean.伽马射线天文学家哈克·博兰·厄格尔曼曾参与 NASA SAS-II 卫星实验，1977 年离开中东技术大学创办理学与文学院并任首任院长。

• Ögelman also had Turkey's first energy-efficient solar house and a solar pond built on the campus in 1981, putting solar research first in a region with abundant sunshine.厄格尔曼还于 1981 年在校园建成土耳其首座节能太阳能住宅和一座太阳池，把太阳能研究置于这个阳光充足地区的优先位置。

• Prof. Dr. Fatih Özoğul, a 1994 Çukurova undergraduate who took his doctorate at the University of Lincoln, heads the Department of Seafood Processing Technology and the Biotechnology Research and Application Centre.法蒂赫·厄佐聚尔 1994 年本科毕业于该校，后获林肯大学博士学位，现任水产加工技术系主任兼生物技术研究与应用中心主任。

• Özoğul was named a Highly Cited Researcher in agricultural sciences by Clarivate in 2023 and has published more than 250 articles in international journals.厄佐聚尔 2023 年被科睿唯安评为农业科学高被引学者，已在国际期刊发表 250 余篇论文。

• Prof. Dr. Hakan Özkan of the Faculty of Agriculture won the TÜBİTAK young scientist award in 2004, held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and took his doctorate through a joint programme of the Weizmann Institute and Çukurova.农学院哈坎·厄兹坎教授 2004 年获土耳其科技研究委员会青年科学家奖，曾是洪堡学者，并通过魏茨曼研究所与丘库罗瓦的联合项目获得博士学位。

• Fuat Oktay, a Çukurova engineering graduate, served as the first Vice President of Turkey from 2018 to 2023.该校工科校友福阿特·奥克塔伊 2018 年至 2023 年出任土耳其首任副总统。

• Macit Özcan, a Çukurova graduate, served as mayor of Mersin until 2014.该校校友马吉特·厄兹詹曾任梅尔辛市市长至 2014 年。

• Turgay Avcı, an alumnus of the university, served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.该校校友图尔盖·阿夫哲曾任北塞浦路斯土耳其共和国副总理兼外交部长。

• Ali Pilli, a Çukurova alumnus, served as Minister of Health in the 41st government of Northern Cyprus.该校校友阿里·皮利曾任北塞浦路斯第 41 届政府卫生部长。

• Hüseyin Dündar, a Çukurova alumnus, is a world and European champion in martial arts disciplines.该校校友许塞因·丁达尔是武术项目的世界冠军与欧洲冠军。

• Barış Karabıyık, another alumnus, combined a career as an association footballer with one in politics.另一位校友巴勒什·卡拉比耶克则在职业足球生涯之外兼而从政。